Very true, but it takes at least a little mechanical knowledge to know that. It's immediately obvious to anyone from the article's video that it's just a scale model, yet in spite of the fact that a totally ignorant person can see in a matter of seconds that it can't be installed in an actual car, the summary still calls it "a replacement for the real thing."
Neil Gaiman first wrote his version of Death in The Sandman in 1990. Pratchett wrote Mort, in which I believe we first really saw his version of Death, in 1987, so he came first; the OP said "almost any author before him", which I think also allows him to slide over old, obscure short stories.
Also, the LOTR is internally structured into six "books". Each published volume contains two of them. I'm not sure how many volumes Tolkien intended it to be published as, but at first glance that would suggest six.
This really doesn't mean anything. Sometimes a novel is structured into "books" that have nothing to do with the physical format it's issued in, as an additional layer above the chapters. The practice is perhaps less common than it used to be but you still see occassionally. Tolkien definitely originally intended the Lord of the Rings to be published in one volume.
Well, no. The Silmarillion came first but was never a publishable manuscript in Tolkien's lifetime--only after some extensive editing by Christopher Tolkien after J.R.R.'s death did it get to see print. Tolkien showed some drafts to publishers and got told it was not sellable, so he wrote the Lord of the Rings instead. There were never at the time any plans by anyone for a "two-book set."
Well, you have three different things you need to distinguish: You have books that are collections of unrelated stories, books that are collections of separate stories set in the same future/alternate history/fantasy world, and then you have books that take separate stories and stitch them together into a single narrative. Heinlein's Future History collection is the second. I believe what we're talking about here is mainly the third.
Lord of the Rings, I don't of as an example of this phenomena, but mnore a precursor.
Lord of the Rings has nothing to do with this. Tolkien wrote it as a single work, and it was originally intended to be published in a single volume. It was decided that its size simply made that too difficult and it was split into three volumes. It was never a "series", it simply *was* a meganovel from the start. (I have a very nice single-volume edition of it, hardback in a red binding done up to look like the Red Book of Westmarch (Tolkien's fictional "source")).
Oblate spheroids are round, but not spherical. (American) Footballs are round, but not spherical. A Frisbee is round, but not spherical. Badminton birdies are round, but not spherical.
So why not just say "spherical"? Round is redundant...
Clinton had the power, and used the power, to delete any emails from this account she felt like. But that's okay, because she only deleted "personal" emails.
Commenters make up a tiny fraction of the entire audience
True, but when your commenter community is microscopic, it's unlikely that your audience is large.
Slashdot gets a lot of comments because you don't even have to go through the trouble of signing up.
Slashdot gets a lot of comments mainly because they have massive reader base. I haven't made a study of it, but my impression is that Anonymous Coward comments are only about half the comments, if that (though I note that you're one), though I will admit that the addition of AC comments stimulates post from logged-in readers (like yours has elicited my reply).
People with a building full of fragile, priceless, irreplaceable artwork dread people swinging long sticks around. With damn good reason, if you ask me.
Why would you waste time looking at the real Mona Lisa when you've seen it everywhere since you were a kid?
You've seen reproductions. At best, printed photographs. It's not the same thing. Which, incidentally, is why taking a selfie with it exactly misses the point.
A lot of his concerns are legitimate, but he went about it the wrong way. Trying a publicity stunt like that against GPS is never going to work, because people are never going to be indignant about system that just enables you to determine your own position (and can't track anybody--GPS devices may track you but that's the device using the GPS results, not GPS itself). He chose a very poor target for the general trend he wanted to protest against.
will remove all sites at apple.com from a search for apple. Mind you, your search results will still all be about Apple Inc., but now none of them are from apple.com.
It was known that cigarettes were bad for you long before--the fact that they ripped up your lungs was not only very evident but intuitively obvious. People were calling them "coffin nails" back in the nineteenth century. It is true that the cancer connection didn't come clear until the 1960s, though.
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Very true, but it takes at least a little mechanical knowledge to know that. It's immediately obvious to anyone from the article's video that it's just a scale model, yet in spite of the fact that a totally ignorant person can see in a matter of seconds that it can't be installed in an actual car, the summary still calls it "a replacement for the real thing."
Neil Gaiman first wrote his version of Death in The Sandman in 1990. Pratchett wrote Mort, in which I believe we first really saw his version of Death, in 1987, so he came first; the OP said "almost any author before him", which I think also allows him to slide over old, obscure short stories.
It looks a little small to fit in my Toyota...
This really doesn't mean anything. Sometimes a novel is structured into "books" that have nothing to do with the physical format it's issued in, as an additional layer above the chapters. The practice is perhaps less common than it used to be but you still see occassionally. Tolkien definitely originally intended the Lord of the Rings to be published in one volume.
Well, no. The Silmarillion came first but was never a publishable manuscript in Tolkien's lifetime--only after some extensive editing by Christopher Tolkien after J.R.R.'s death did it get to see print. Tolkien showed some drafts to publishers and got told it was not sellable, so he wrote the Lord of the Rings instead. There were never at the time any plans by anyone for a "two-book set."
Well, you have three different things you need to distinguish: You have books that are collections of unrelated stories, books that are collections of separate stories set in the same future/alternate history/fantasy world, and then you have books that take separate stories and stitch them together into a single narrative. Heinlein's Future History collection is the second. I believe what we're talking about here is mainly the third.
Lord of the Rings has nothing to do with this. Tolkien wrote it as a single work, and it was originally intended to be published in a single volume. It was decided that its size simply made that too difficult and it was split into three volumes. It was never a "series", it simply *was* a meganovel from the start. (I have a very nice single-volume edition of it, hardback in a red binding done up to look like the Red Book of Westmarch (Tolkien's fictional "source")).
So why not just say "spherical"? Round is redundant...
Clinton had the power, and used the power, to delete any emails from this account she felt like. But that's okay, because she only deleted "personal" emails.
The Twilos got you too?
True, but when your commenter community is microscopic, it's unlikely that your audience is large.
Slashdot gets a lot of comments because you don't even have to go through the trouble of signing up.
Slashdot gets a lot of comments mainly because they have massive reader base. I haven't made a study of it, but my impression is that Anonymous Coward comments are only about half the comments, if that (though I note that you're one), though I will admit that the addition of AC comments stimulates post from logged-in readers (like yours has elicited my reply).
...it won't require NSYNC.
People with a building full of fragile, priceless, irreplaceable artwork dread people swinging long sticks around. With damn good reason, if you ask me.
You've seen reproductions. At best, printed photographs. It's not the same thing. Which, incidentally, is why taking a selfie with it exactly misses the point.
Head injuries can indeed cause Parkinson's. Perhaps you're the one who needs to be educated.
I didn't know Steisand was black...
Hooker's a good cop!
A lot of his concerns are legitimate, but he went about it the wrong way. Trying a publicity stunt like that against GPS is never going to work, because people are never going to be indignant about system that just enables you to determine your own position (and can't track anybody--GPS devices may track you but that's the device using the GPS results, not GPS itself). He chose a very poor target for the general trend he wanted to protest against.
Feeling nausea is "nauseated". Causing nausea is "nauseous." Do not say "I feel nauseous" unless you are sure you have this effect on others.
watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!
What, again?
This time for sure!
It's popular, so now it sucks?
Looking at the name extension will tell you what the system will attempt to do with it by default. This can be very important to know.
In other words, they won't care.
"It doesn't matter what my side has done, because the other side is so much worse!"
will remove all sites at apple.com from a search for apple. Mind you, your search results will still all be about Apple Inc., but now none of them are from apple.com.
It was known that cigarettes were bad for you long before--the fact that they ripped up your lungs was not only very evident but intuitively obvious. People were calling them "coffin nails" back in the nineteenth century. It is true that the cancer connection didn't come clear until the 1960s, though.