The most compelling theory I have seen on this is that the Hallows are the remaining Horcruxes.
In mythology, the the Four Hallows of Ireland are treasures possessing magical attributes - the Stone of Destiny, the Spear of Destiny, the Sword of Light, and a bottomless cauldron. The Four Hallows are sometimes referred to as the Four Treasures of Ireland, and this would seem to fit, in that Voldemort's greatest treasures would be the horcruxes.
If the correlation holds, "deathly" would most certainly be a fit adjective to describe such things created by the Dark Lord, and the title of the final book, which we know has to deal with Harry's quest to find these objects, would roughly translate to "Harry Potter and The Remaining Horcruxes".
'Meanwhile,' Sutt says, 'we were focusing on how to keep the nail from pulling out.
Maybe I'm alone among Slashdotters, but if anybody here had ever seen my attempts at D.I.Y, they'd understand why I prefer to have a nail that I can remove and use again after I mess up fixing a chair:)
Just pretend you never got it. and ignore it, go about your day. Apparently the boss is already too much of a pussy as to actually fire you in the fire place, so what is the chance he will say anything.
Yeah but what happens when they take your red swingline stapler?
I was going to reply with a "DO NOT WANT!!!", but I know it would just cost me karma. At the same time, I hate wasting a Star Wars engrish reference, so I'll just reply to a reply and hope nobody with any mod points sees me down here...
It's bizarre how, at their limits, capitalism approaches Bolshevism.
People tend to see "left" and "right" wing politics existing as alternate ends of a spectrum, getting more and more unlike each other as you travel in either direction. I think, though, that politics tends more towards a circular representation, with "center" parties being very alike, differing on relatively few issues, then party's politics diverging as one move's further in either direction, so that center-right and center-left were roughly opposite, and finally coming together again so that far-right and far-left were once again almost indistinguishable.
I'm sure somebody else has come up with the idea before; I came up with it myself when I was reading 1984 as a kid, and had a problem understanding if the government was supposed to be extreme right or left. Sorry if I haven't explained it particularly well; its clearer when drawn on paper:)
Actually, on this issue I've seen more slashdot user criticism of Google than I have on pretty much anything else they have done; "evil" or otherwise.
In fact, the majority of the posts to this thread, at least those I've read, seem to be arguing against Google on this, many jokingly pointing out that a thumbs up from Bill Gates, the "Big Bad" on Slashdot, is hardly an winning endorsement of their actions in China.
I think (but could be wrong) that his point is that the more information that is going into China from the outside, the harder it is to censor -everything-, so while the amount of censoring technically is increasing, so is the chance that relevant information will get by those censors.
I don't consider it a "greater sin", I consider it a worse attribute to have in an employee. If I were a newspaper editor, and one of my employees was plagarising work, any number of things could happen if he was caught. If he admitted it, or I was the one who caught him, I would punish him in some way; possibly dock him pay or whatever, possibly fire him. However, whatever the situation I can deal with it "in house" and avoid large-scale scandal. If my employee gets caught by the original author, however, because he wasn't clever enough to disguise his work, then the problem becomes more global in scope, and my newspaper is brought into serious disrepute.
I am not saying that it is right to plagarise, or that plagarism is "better" morally than being caught, but if I was an employer in that situation, this is the last thing I would want my employee to bring to the company.
...to use babelfish to translate the wikipedia article from English to Chinese, back again, and fix the grammer? The guy deserves to be fired. Sure, for plagarism, but more importantly for being stupid enough to get caught, imho.
Take it easy, take it easy. The deeper you troll the higher you fly. In google pagerank, that is;)
BTW, I dont fully understand how search engine indexing works, but wouldn't everybody in this thread constantly mentioning "Beatles" and referencing their songs (even while complaining about Scuttlemonkey and spamming) increase the relevance that google attaches to this guy's link in relation to the Beatles, and rise his page up through the ranks?
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The most compelling theory I have seen on this is that the Hallows are the remaining Horcruxes.
In mythology, the the Four Hallows of Ireland are treasures possessing magical attributes - the Stone of Destiny, the Spear of Destiny, the Sword of Light, and a bottomless cauldron. The Four Hallows are sometimes referred to as the Four Treasures of Ireland, and this would seem to fit, in that Voldemort's greatest treasures would be the horcruxes.
If the correlation holds, "deathly" would most certainly be a fit adjective to describe such things created by the Dark Lord, and the title of the final book, which we know has to deal with Harry's quest to find these objects, would roughly translate to "Harry Potter and The Remaining Horcruxes".
Out of interest, how do they define an "eastern" side of the sun?
'Meanwhile,' Sutt says, 'we were focusing on how to keep the nail from pulling out.
:)
Maybe I'm alone among Slashdotters, but if anybody here had ever seen my attempts at D.I.Y, they'd understand why I prefer to have a nail that I can remove and use again after I mess up fixing a chair
Why, because they surrendered to Tux? :)
Nothing to see here, move along.
Just pretend you never got it. and ignore it, go about your day. Apparently the boss is already too much of a pussy as to actually fire you in the fire place, so what is the chance he will say anything.
Yeah but what happens when they take your red swingline stapler?
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Dave
As long as my Plutons are ok!
Yeah, well I'm still waiting on the wearable computer/clothes that I saw on Tomorrow's World about fifteen years ago!
Wow, you live near a McDowell's too? :D
Its not "global warming", its "intelligent melting" ;)
How come when the property of regular citizens is siezed for investigation of a piracy or drug-related crime, you always hear the term "raid."
;)
That's because regular citizens "loot" these materials, while Microsoft "find" tax loopholes
Does it make me old that I don't consider Chinese history starting in 1949 as the "old ways"? :/
I was going to reply with a "DO NOT WANT!!!", but I know it would just cost me karma. At the same time, I hate wasting a Star Wars engrish reference, so I'll just reply to a reply and hope nobody with any mod points sees me down here...
I think you mean Michael Griffin? :)
It's bizarre how, at their limits, capitalism approaches Bolshevism.
:)
People tend to see "left" and "right" wing politics existing as alternate ends of a spectrum, getting more and more unlike each other as you travel in either direction. I think, though, that politics tends more towards a circular representation, with "center" parties being very alike, differing on relatively few issues, then party's politics diverging as one move's further in either direction, so that center-right and center-left were roughly opposite, and finally coming together again so that far-right and far-left were once again almost indistinguishable.
I'm sure somebody else has come up with the idea before; I came up with it myself when I was reading 1984 as a kid, and had a problem understanding if the government was supposed to be extreme right or left. Sorry if I haven't explained it particularly well; its clearer when drawn on paper
Actually, on this issue I've seen more slashdot user criticism of Google than I have on pretty much anything else they have done; "evil" or otherwise.
In fact, the majority of the posts to this thread, at least those I've read, seem to be arguing against Google on this, many jokingly pointing out that a thumbs up from Bill Gates, the "Big Bad" on Slashdot, is hardly an winning endorsement of their actions in China.
I think (but could be wrong) that his point is that the more information that is going into China from the outside, the harder it is to censor -everything-, so while the amount of censoring technically is increasing, so is the chance that relevant information will get by those censors.
I don't consider it a "greater sin", I consider it a worse attribute to have in an employee. If I were a newspaper editor, and one of my employees was plagarising work, any number of things could happen if he was caught. If he admitted it, or I was the one who caught him, I would punish him in some way; possibly dock him pay or whatever, possibly fire him. However, whatever the situation I can deal with it "in house" and avoid large-scale scandal. If my employee gets caught by the original author, however, because he wasn't clever enough to disguise his work, then the problem becomes more global in scope, and my newspaper is brought into serious disrepute.
I am not saying that it is right to plagarise, or that plagarism is "better" morally than being caught, but if I was an employer in that situation, this is the last thing I would want my employee to bring to the company.
...to use babelfish to translate the wikipedia article from English to Chinese, back again, and fix the grammer? The guy deserves to be fired. Sure, for plagarism, but more importantly for being stupid enough to get caught, imho.
Take it easy, take it easy. The deeper you troll the higher you fly. In google pagerank, that is ;)
BTW, I dont fully understand how search engine indexing works, but wouldn't everybody in this thread constantly mentioning "Beatles" and referencing their songs (even while complaining about Scuttlemonkey and spamming) increase the relevance that google attaches to this guy's link in relation to the Beatles, and rise his page up through the ranks?
Unlike this page. Why did I just get a 404 on /.??
Information Systems?
Front page of Slashdot, and a weak server. I wouldn't particularly call that astonishing ;)
I was gonna make that joke, but then I thought, "nah, it will just cost me karma", and I didn't. So tohellwith.eu ;P