Tom Bombadil Good riddance. Most annoying chapter(s) in the whole series...
perhaps you may have misread the chapter. see this easy: which looks to answer the question, "Who Is Tom Bombadil?"
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If Tom is Aule, however, there is a moral dimension, indeed, a heightened one, for Tom's appearance in the story, although only a "comment," serves as a sharp and clear contrast to the two evil Maiar, Sauron and Saruman, both of whom were once his servants before turning to evil and darkness. Unlike their former master, these two followed the ways of Melkor, envy, jealousy, excessive pride, and the desire to possess and control.
Tolkien seems to have created a very complete universe, many bits of which have a history which is not immediately obvious, and which may profit from re-reading after a few years.
I am reminded of the Babylon 5 Episode where the Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollarri has offended someone he should not, resulting in his room and accounts being molested by some sort of Computer Demon, which proceeds to place all the music he hates, messing with the enviromental controls (including odors) and even messing with all of his communications and financial accounts. (episode synopsis here)
This equates to artificially intelligent versions of viruses, complete with very sophisticated capabilities. A script kiddies delight. Of course, properly written, it could be dangerous to play with, taking out a few script kiddy systems in the process.
(imagine demonic voices coming out of a system - "Who dares summon me?")
Of course, over the past few decades folks in the fringe groups have been muttering about a harmonic alignment of the stars and planets as of significance to life here on earth.
No surprise, this eclipse ties into this set of beliefs. See the site here, which goes into it in far more detail than I would ever care to know about it now.
On the other hand, if you cannot get to see the eclipse, you can use a program like Celestia to see it virtually in your own computer. A very pretty program.
I work for Apple and am therefore posting anonymously. While this was done on purpose, it was buy a sole developer, and not a decision by Apple. That developer has since been let go.
Strange. I would have thought this behavior was a feature of the operating system;)
Apparently, in order to make chips much faster, we're going to have to pump more electricity in then anything else in our houses -- and they'll soon be as hot as a nuclear reactor -- no, really.
This makes sense, even from the view point on increasing density and complexity of data alone being packed into smaller and smaller containers. Even if you only allocated 1 electron per bit, after a while all of those bits start to add up. Unless you go to another system.
As an example, people often cite the human brain, with all of it's nueral connections and pathways. But this might not be all that is going on.
Regardless of your opinion on the above (some of which is highly speculative), this leads us to the vision of a computer technology where not not only electronics states are used for data processing, but magnetic ones as well.
I would rather they stay privately held rather than go down a path where micros soft can buy them out. Just my personal opinion.
The siren call of all that money is tempting. but the danger is that you end up loosing all control. I am sure there are many former dot.com founders who have interesting tales of caution along this line.
I do not want google to become another thing to be looted by a bunch of investment types or by MS.
As seen in pages on emerging physics, warp drive works by generating a warp bubble around the ship. The matter inside the bubble is essentially motionless relative to itself. Sort of like a person inside a car does not have to worry about wind resistance.
On the other hand, this has interesting implications for the physics of star trek weapons technology. No phasers at warp drive, and firing, never mind aiming, photon torpedoes could be a royal pain.
This is very prolific. I've cleaned it on on laptop twice! I have a supsicion the user is downloading crap all the time, but I do wonder in what form it come in.
I think I've seen it get installed by Kazaa. Which is why you should use Kazaa Lite. I'm sure there are a number of other cutsey entertainment joke and games sites that will also push this junque on the user.
"Land Warrior Initial Capability" (LW-IC) was supposed to be the first step in a long process of networking soldiers together. Each fighter would get equipped with a small, 500 megahertz computer running Windows 2000, a radio, a customized rifle and a helmet-mounted display eyepiece. All of these would be linked together. And all that a soldier sees or says could be sent to each other or to headquarters.
and the findings were:
the system was deemed 'unreliable' and unlikely to survive the rigors of combat
This info on the book came out over this past weekend, and was featured in an article in USA Today on the 20th, alonf with many other places if you know where to look. I'm sure dozens of folks submitted the item since then, and even earlier, but it only reached the smarter primates in the food chain today
the Ars technica system guide is not a bad place to start for a lot of folks. They have several suggested custom system systems, at different budget levels, including the money no object "god box".
of course, with multi panel screens, and other pricey toys, etc. it is possible to go slightly bonkers.
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Ashcroft and Bush haven't burned down any religious comunes, haven't covered up FBI sniper killings, and haven't condoned forced repatriation of orphaned immigrants.
I can see all of the glazed eyeballs out there as you tell folks that they need to learn about firewalls and computer security, etc. Some folks just don't want to be bothered.
Randon thought - with the decline of things like boot disk viruses, etc, best security most folks can understand is that they are safe so long as they are not on the internet.
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perhaps you may have misread the chapter. see this easy: which looks to answer the question, "Who Is Tom Bombadil?"
snippet:
If Tom is Aule, however, there is a moral dimension, indeed, a heightened one, for Tom's appearance in the story, although only a "comment," serves as a sharp and clear contrast to the two evil Maiar, Sauron and Saruman, both of whom were once his servants before turning to evil and darkness. Unlike their former master, these two followed the ways of Melkor, envy, jealousy, excessive pride, and the desire to possess and control.
Tolkien seems to have created a very complete universe, many bits of which have a history which is not immediately obvious, and which may profit from re-reading after a few years.
Prarie dogs: Be gone (not for people with sensitive stomachs.)
film footage of the use of high power high velocity rifles on "vermin"
Entertaining if you are into it. Quite sickening if you are not
This equates to artificially intelligent versions of viruses, complete with very sophisticated capabilities. A script kiddies delight. Of course, properly written, it could be dangerous to play with, taking out a few script kiddy systems in the process.
(imagine demonic voices coming out of a system - "Who dares summon me?")
You get brownie points and a cookie. The post was for amusement.
Are you sure you had the right date and time?
Did you have eclipse shadows enabled? (they are turned off by default along with other special effects.
No surprise, this eclipse ties into this set of beliefs. See the site here, which goes into it in far more detail than I would ever care to know about it now.
On the other hand, if you cannot get to see the eclipse, you can use a program like Celestia to see it virtually in your own computer. A very pretty program.
Strange. I would have thought this behavior was a feature of the operating system ;)
This makes sense, even from the view point on increasing density and complexity of data alone being packed into smaller and smaller containers. Even if you only allocated 1 electron per bit, after a while all of those bits start to add up. Unless you go to another system.
As an example, people often cite the human brain, with all of it's nueral connections and pathways. But this might not be all that is going on.
Biomineralization of ferrimagnetic magnetite is known to occur in a number of organisms including animals. Recent investigations have revealed the presence of biogenic magnetite in human brain tissue as well. The presence of magnetite in the brain has been established using a variety of magnetic and electron microscopic techniques.
This has interesting implications for data processing in the brain, as well a exotic areas of research into the phenomena of consciousness
Regardless of your opinion on the above (some of which is highly speculative), this leads us to the vision of a computer technology where not not only electronics states are used for data processing, but magnetic ones as well.
;)
I thought he died in a car accident?
Actually, he's interviewing for a job on VH1
They measure how hard someone is jerking your chain.
Actually the MS thingy is going to be named Nomad, not Monad, and we'll get to make bad jokes refering to old Star Trek movies
The siren call of all that money is tempting. but the danger is that you end up loosing all control. I am sure there are many former dot.com founders who have interesting tales of caution along this line.
I do not want google to become another thing to be looted by a bunch of investment types or by MS.
Mark my words, it will happen.
shocking little old ladies in Pasadena no end.
On the other hand, this has interesting implications for the physics of star trek weapons technology. No phasers at warp drive, and firing, never mind aiming, photon torpedoes could be a royal pain.
I think I've seen it get installed by Kazaa. Which is why you should use Kazaa Lite. I'm sure there are a number of other cutsey entertainment joke and games sites that will also push this junque on the user.
It's freeware.
spywareinfo.com has a number of good resources, along with a semi-reasonable message board. Which is where I found out about HiJack This
"Land Warrior Initial Capability" (LW-IC) was supposed to be the first step in a long process of networking soldiers together. Each fighter would get equipped with a small, 500 megahertz computer running Windows 2000, a radio, a customized rifle and a helmet-mounted display eyepiece. All of these would be linked together. And all that a soldier sees or says could be sent to each other or to headquarters.
and the findings were:
the system was deemed 'unreliable' and unlikely to survive the rigors of combat
but then, maybe this guy is a friend of a friend
I think they are about due for an update as it is....
of course, with multi panel screens, and other pricey toys, etc. it is possible to go slightly bonkers.
You may find this fox news item interesting then. Remember, Fox stands for fair and balanced news
it should be Straits Times - need morning coffee. of course
I can see all of the glazed eyeballs out there as you tell folks that they need to learn about firewalls and computer security, etc. Some folks just don't want to be bothered.
Randon thought - with the decline of things like boot disk viruses, etc, best security most folks can understand is that they are safe so long as they are not on the internet.