Firstly, the universe wasn't made for you, it has no interest in whether it might make your maths difficult; if it needs 7 constants instead of 6, or 700, it's up to you to deal with it. Plus, the maths might only be difficult because of your starting assumptions and a new model may lead to cleared maths one day.
Secondly, black hole theory is a mess and only looks acceptable to modern eyes due to familiarity. The singularity in the system is a BIG clue that it's wrong.
I'm not saying that the gravastar idea is right, and the temperature issue is a big question mark, but no one has given any reason in the last 30 years as to why we should accept the current BH theory other than it looks good on paper and the "problems" will be solved one day. Soon. Not yet, no, but I'm sure someone will clear it up. Probably.
She's about the only person in the world who thinks any one gives a fuck about HP PCs. HP has one of the best known names in the industry after MS and IBM but I doubt more than one in ten people you asked "What do HP Make?" would say "Computers" rather than "Printers". In the UK more people would say "Sauce" than "Computers"!
So, get back to making good printers that all computers can use and let Compac get on with going bust (or sorting their business out).
Modern programs throw huge amounts of memory around and many processors have introduced special instructions or optimised instructions for this and other bulk data handling. Using them can make visible differences even in email readers.
I have broadband and 600Mhz which probably never get more than 1% usage over a whole week, with no reduction in cost if I don't use my bandwidhth. Downloading and recompiling at night would suit me fine and I'd actually be gettig better value for the broadband.
If I was on a 56K modem and a slow machine I'm not so sure that this would be worth while. But slow machines are getting rare now.
Don't talk rubbish. I remember the Lisa coming out and everyone talking about how it looked like the Xerox stuff in that old issue of Byte. Apple may have bought or hired the engineers but they were copying someone else, end of story. Then they cried to the courts when other people copied Xerox too.
How very odd... I'd have liked a bit more on why they used Lisp since one reason many give is normally the garbage collection which isn't being used here. Why is GC too slow in Lisp when there are years of experience behind it?
If you read the article it is about the possible effect of forcing software producers to honour certain basic fitness requirements. Since this is being pushed as a consequence of MS's ineptitude and the damage it is causing, it is on-topic. In addition it deals with issues a lot of people were discussing within this story.
What percentage of buyers think that way (I do BTW)?
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I can list the significant (non-"got to do this to make/sell/fit it at all") inaccuracies on 1 hand
I must have bigger hands than you!
There is no mention of Galadriel's ring or the effect Frodo's quest will have on her and Lorien let alone on Elrond and Rivendell, and Sam does not get to look ahead to Film #3 in her mirror, the Fellowship is not given their gifts but have them in the boats when leaving, Gandalf and Saruman's fight is embarassingly bad ("Ha! I've tripped you up! " "Double Ha! Now I've tripped you up too!"), Frodo does not get to defy the Nazgul on his own, Gandalf does not attempt to bar the door to the Balrog, the Balrog hangs around for several minutes while they arse around on that pillar, Moria has many parts which resemble the book but the order is very distorted and the stairway scene is just plain stupid, the council of Elrond is very badly mangled and doesn't actually make much sense unless you've read the book and Gimli acts like an idiot in it, the entire sequence from Boromir trying to steal the ring is wrong and adds nothing to the version in the book, the existance of other wizards is not mentioned and poor old Radagast is lost, Saruman neglects to mention his "many colours", the three trolls appear but no one notices them, the watcher does not purposely slam the doors behind them (a very chilling moment in the book), the Nazgul are shown incorrectly at Weathertop and generally act like Keystone Kops as well, what are those mountains in the Shire and why do they disappear in some scenes? etc.
Basically, at every point where there is just a little more to one of the characters than meets the eye it is skipped. No characterisation or back story for these people! The little bits add up and what is lost is not made up for except in long and silly combats with the (thin) hobbits joining into the thick of it.
This was a poor movie and a plain bad adaptation by a writer and director that had no interest in doing a good job.
No one who saw this story as a story about people could come up with such damaging scenes as points #3 and #4 in your post; nothing is gained in a film-making sense and a lot of characterisation is thrown out. Why?
"Buy the DVD and see the missing story" is the answer. Well, I expected to see the story in the cinema - an adapted story with changes but a complete story about characters rather than scenery, effects, and combat.
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You must have seen a different cut from me. The one I saw was a totally shallow "look at the pretty pictures" version. Even some of the pretty pictures didn't work.
I agree that this movie is something new, however. It is the first movie, of what will be many more, that exists only to advertise its own DVD. Once the "extra" 30-40 minutes are added in it may even work as a move but it does not, and almost certainly was never intended to, work as a stand alone product. Re-read the first book - there's very little of in the film beyond the settings, which are generally well done (apart from Moria which is only "right" in a couple of places).
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Secondly, black hole theory is a mess and only looks acceptable to modern eyes due to familiarity. The singularity in the system is a BIG clue that it's wrong.
I'm not saying that the gravastar idea is right, and the temperature issue is a big question mark, but no one has given any reason in the last 30 years as to why we should accept the current BH theory other than it looks good on paper and the "problems" will be solved one day. Soon. Not yet, no, but I'm sure someone will clear it up. Probably.
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Yes, and they've really done a sterling job with that, haven't they?
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She's about the only person in the world who thinks any one gives a fuck about HP PCs. HP has one of the best known names in the industry after MS and IBM but I doubt more than one in ten people you asked "What do HP Make?" would say "Computers" rather than "Printers". In the UK more people would say "Sauce" than "Computers"!
So, get back to making good printers that all computers can use and let Compac get on with going bust (or sorting their business out).
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If I was on a 56K modem and a slow machine I'm not so sure that this would be worth while. But slow machines are getting rare now.
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"Blatant rip-offs"! Don't make me laugh.
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Fair enough, if I'm paying for it in tax I expect to own the end result. If you don't want me to then don't take my money. Very simple.
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But they are both highly over-rated, so they have something in common.
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Mind you, using the RPM system is pretty self-defeating too.
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Mind you, using the RPM system is pretty self-defeating too.
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That's in a vacuum, this is not a vacuum.
Funny how "double-u" isn't used in the one common word where it's needed.
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Contradiction in terms there.
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What percentage of buyers think that way (I do BTW)?
I must have bigger hands than you!
There is no mention of Galadriel's ring or the effect Frodo's quest will have on her and Lorien let alone on Elrond and Rivendell, and Sam does not get to look ahead to Film #3 in her mirror, the Fellowship is not given their gifts but have them in the boats when leaving, Gandalf and Saruman's fight is embarassingly bad ("Ha! I've tripped you up! " "Double Ha! Now I've tripped you up too!"), Frodo does not get to defy the Nazgul on his own, Gandalf does not attempt to bar the door to the Balrog, the Balrog hangs around for several minutes while they arse around on that pillar, Moria has many parts which resemble the book but the order is very distorted and the stairway scene is just plain stupid, the council of Elrond is very badly mangled and doesn't actually make much sense unless you've read the book and Gimli acts like an idiot in it, the entire sequence from Boromir trying to steal the ring is wrong and adds nothing to the version in the book, the existance of other wizards is not mentioned and poor old Radagast is lost, Saruman neglects to mention his "many colours", the three trolls appear but no one notices them, the watcher does not purposely slam the doors behind them (a very chilling moment in the book), the Nazgul are shown incorrectly at Weathertop and generally act like Keystone Kops as well, what are those mountains in the Shire and why do they disappear in some scenes? etc.
Basically, at every point where there is just a little more to one of the characters than meets the eye it is skipped. No characterisation or back story for these people! The little bits add up and what is lost is not made up for except in long and silly combats with the (thin) hobbits joining into the thick of it.
This was a poor movie and a plain bad adaptation by a writer and director that had no interest in doing a good job.
No one who saw this story as a story about people could come up with such damaging scenes as points #3 and #4 in your post; nothing is gained in a film-making sense and a lot of characterisation is thrown out. Why? "Buy the DVD and see the missing story" is the answer. Well, I expected to see the story in the cinema - an adapted story with changes but a complete story about characters rather than scenery, effects, and combat.
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Go into a national retailer and buy a computer with Linux on it (from the shop) and I might see your point.
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Nslookup isn't exactly user-friendly either!
I agree that this movie is something new, however. It is the first movie, of what will be many more, that exists only to advertise its own DVD. Once the "extra" 30-40 minutes are added in it may even work as a move but it does not, and almost certainly was never intended to, work as a stand alone product. Re-read the first book - there's very little of in the film beyond the settings, which are generally well done (apart from Moria which is only "right" in a couple of places).
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