> And to those in the non-print media, their voice is the most beautiful thing in the world. It's no points for content or relevance and full points for inflection and intonation.
"Your post is"
"..."
"Plus two, inflection"
"..."
"Plus one, intonation"
"..."
"Total, plus three."
"..."
"You have"
"..."
"one"
"..."
"more posts."
"..."
"Say 'next' to continue."
Since CUPS is GPL'd software, you should get into the habit of refering to it as g-cups, as in I have g-cups on my computer.
This of course shows the innate superiority of the GPL over the BSD license, since if CUPS was distributed under the BSDL you would only have b-cups on your computer.
Of course, crusty old BSD sysadmins have some kind of anti-bloat bias, so maybe they'd be content with b-cups.
> The two most important scenes in the movie (which by the way are *far* more insightful in the book, as almost all book-to-movie translations are) are the following
D00D! The screenplay was written by Clarke & Kubrik based on a short story by Clarke. The two scenes you mention were not in the short story.
> I hate when I read something like this while i'm drinking something. Now I got to clean of my desk...
C|N>K?
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· Score: 2, Funny
> Here's a little gem from the MS XP site [microsoft.com]
Now Windows XP offers strong security to home computer users through Internet Connection Firewall protection, which makes your information, computers, and family data safer from intruders as soon as you start using Windows XP.
That's a typo. It's supposed to say "makes your information safer for intruders as soon as you start using Windows XP."
> I mean how long did the RIAA think all this could last? Lets see what exactly do they do?
I'm just speculating, but I suspect they actually served a purpose when the electronics industry was young and not every superstarwannabe had a digital recording studio in his bedroom and an internet to lead the world to his bedroom door.
Nevertheless, dinosaurs will not go willingly into the night.
> Easter Eggs aren't terrorist exploits. They're usually harmless, and are basically there to make people say "neato" or something like that. Besides, the QA people are listed in the credits, too.
Yeah, if I were putting a terroristic exploit in the code I would probably list someone from QA in the credits as well.
Re:Where the hell is Microsoft's PR agency?
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> Well the way I figure it, they are paranoid enough that someone at MS will try to find out if this is ture or not
> And they will find that there is no way to tell...
Yes, but at least they will qualify for 3 or 4 billion dollars of disaster relief funding, and a play for sympathy may get them a reduced wrist slap from the DoJ.
> Some blame the sour economy. Others point to lackluster sales of hotly anticipated new releases from artists like Mariah Carey and Macy Gray, and the glut of look-alike, sound-alike boy bands.
Someone please tell me that was intended as sarcasm. The only reason I've even heard of Mariah Carey is because Jay Leno spent two solid weeks ridiculing her overhyped movie.
And what could be more hotly anticipated than a new release from one of a glut of look-alike, sound-alike boy bands?
> anyone who finds the drool-proof Fisher-price desktop interfaces of "modern" commercial OSes "complex", after 15-20 years for the concepts to sink into the culture, and umpty-zillion dollars in usability testing, HCI factors researchers, Xerox, MIT MediaLab, Apple, XP, blah blah blah... probably shouldn't be left on their own with a box of matches, ya-know-what-i-mean?
> Part of the problem here, however, is that Christians, including Tolkien, have this habit of assuming that Christianity invented or dominates things like forgiveness and friendship and good vs. evil. So, they consider having written a story that emphasizes those themes to be distinctly emphasizing Christianity, when in fact they are quite universal in character.
> This could exaplain why Tolkien believed himself to be writing a very Christian story, but in fact one that rarely comes accross like that to anyone not interested in forcing the comparison.
Thanks to everyone who commented, especially those who posted the quote from The Man Himself.
However, per the quotes above, I simply can't see it by looking at the text. The following would genuinely terrify me:
Final Exam. 1 question, 100 points. You have three hours.
List the ten most important characters in Lord of the Rings, briefly justify the inclusion of each in the top ten, and then describe the role each plays in the interpretation of LotR as a Christian allegory.
FWIW, my choice would be something like {Frodo, Samwise, Gandalf, Aragorn, Gollum, Sauron, Galadriel, Faramir,... two wildcards}. But how would you work all, or even most of them, into a coherent Christian allegory? (If anyone wants to write the essay and post it, I'll certainly read it.)
Also, JRRT seems to be somewhat inconsistent on the topic himself, as some people quoted his "yes it is" statement, but others say he is also on record adamantly against any allegorical interpretation.
Finally, what are we to make of his idea that an author can "unconsiously" [sic] produce an allegory? Though he adamantly denies that LotR is a WWII allegory, it seems to work better that way than as a Christian allegory, and the time and place of its writing would certainly be conducive to it as well. So can we conclude that he "unconsciously" wrote a WWII allegory and never recognized it?
> Certainly large parts of the Silmarillion [amazon.com] owed a lot to Christian mythology. The fall of Melkor certainly parallels the Satan thing - and yes, the Wizards to have cetain characteristics of angels.
The problem for people who want to really push the idea is that the Tolkien mythos doesn't have any Redeemer, which is the central concept of the Christian mythos.
Conversely, the Numenor meme plays a fairly large role in the Tolkien mythos, but it's derived from the Atlantis myth rather than from Christian myth.
The problem here is that people see a few points of contact between Tolkien and Christianity, know that he was a Christian, and take that as license to hammer everything else into the mold. But it simply doesn't stand up if you look at it objectively.
The interpretation of LoTR as an allegory for WWII seems to work better, though Tolkien himself disavowed it. I'm with those who say that Tolkien was immersed in Western culture (with a deeper than common familiarity with the languages, literature, and folklore of northwestern Europe), and not unexpectedly his writings reveal some of the notions deeply embedded in his culture.
> * it was CS Lewis and Tolkien's publisher who convinced him to write a followup to "The Hobbit";
In the front matter to my edition of LoTR he says that he had actually wanted to follow up The Hobbit with what later became The Silmarillion, but when he enquired about the chances of getting it published he was told "snowball's". So he wrote LoTR as a sort of half-way consolation piece.
One of the most tolkienesque things I've read in Norse literature is "The Lay of Volund" in the Poetic Edda. The first part is a bit vague, and the rest is rather grim, but it's short and well worth reading if you're in to this kind of thing.
And of course, it might lead you on into some other great literature.
Slashdot Mirror
At any given time, 5% of the net is slashdotted.
> Well, 640k is enough for everyone. Isn't it ?
s/k/M/
At least, that's the argument some people seem to be making.
> And to those in the non-print media, their voice is the most beautiful thing in the world. It's no points for content or relevance and full points for inflection and intonation.
"Your post is"
"..."
"Plus two, inflection"
"..."
"Plus one, intonation"
"..."
"Total, plus three."
"..."
"You have"
"..."
"one"
"..."
"more posts."
"..."
"Say 'next' to continue."
Since CUPS is GPL'd software, you should get into the habit of refering to it as g-cups, as in I have g-cups on my computer.
This of course shows the innate superiority of the GPL over the BSD license, since if CUPS was distributed under the BSDL you would only have b-cups on your computer.
Of course, crusty old BSD sysadmins have some kind of anti-bloat bias, so maybe they'd be content with b-cups.
> The two most important scenes in the movie (which by the way are *far* more insightful in the book, as almost all book-to-movie translations are) are the following
D00D! The screenplay was written by Clarke & Kubrik based on a short story by Clarke. The two scenes you mention were not in the short story.
> It took a lot to take down HAL. Of course we have nothing near the AI as that, but if we did, a script kiddie could probably bring it down
> yet on my 56k modem, and a new one is already out? I'm hopeless...
If you're modem bound, you're supposed to start downloading the next kernel, before they finish working on it.
By far the most popular computer game of '01 was a cross-platform distributed game: trolling on Slashdot.
> I hate when I read something like this while i'm drinking something. Now I got to clean of my desk...
C|N>K ?
> Here's a little gem from the MS XP site [microsoft.com] That's a typo. It's supposed to say "makes your information safer for intruders as soon as you start using Windows XP."
> I mean how long did the RIAA think all this could last? Lets see what exactly do they do?
I'm just speculating, but I suspect they actually served a purpose when the electronics industry was young and not every superstarwannabe had a digital recording studio in his bedroom and an internet to lead the world to his bedroom door.
Nevertheless, dinosaurs will not go willingly into the night.
> Have you seen an 'nsync or a britney and a christina show? There's some major work and choreography involved.
Ah. So ballet has finally become a trillion-dollar branch of the entertainment industry.
7 Qbits already? That's great! No one should ever need more than 640 Qbits.
>
What about a gnat?
> Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said Afroze's claims about the company were "bizarre and unsubstantiated and should be treated skeptically."
Of course, even the true claims about Microsoft are "bizarre".
> Easter Eggs aren't terrorist exploits. They're usually harmless, and are basically there to make people say "neato" or something like that. Besides, the QA people are listed in the credits, too.
Yeah, if I were putting a terroristic exploit in the code I would probably list someone from QA in the credits as well.
> Well the way I figure it, they are paranoid enough that someone at MS will try to find out if this is ture or not
> And they will find that there is no way to tell...
Yes, but at least they will qualify for 3 or 4 billion dollars of disaster relief funding, and a play for sympathy may get them a reduced wrist slap from the DoJ.
> Some blame the sour economy. Others point to lackluster sales of hotly anticipated new releases from artists like Mariah Carey and Macy Gray, and the glut of look-alike, sound-alike boy bands.
Someone please tell me that was intended as sarcasm. The only reason I've even heard of Mariah Carey is because Jay Leno spent two solid weeks ridiculing her overhyped movie.
And what could be more hotly anticipated than a new release from one of a glut of look-alike, sound-alike boy bands?
> anyone who finds the drool-proof Fisher-price desktop interfaces of "modern" commercial OSes "complex", after 15-20 years for the concepts to sink into the culture, and umpty-zillion dollars in usability testing, HCI factors researchers, Xerox, MIT MediaLab, Apple, XP, blah blah blah... probably shouldn't be left on their own with a box of matches, ya-know-what-i-mean?
Let alone write a column called "Chaos Manor".
> To run a motorbike I mush know how to do this
You should also drink less.
> This could exaplain why Tolkien believed himself to be writing a very Christian story, but in fact one that rarely comes accross like that to anyone not interested in forcing the comparison.
Thanks to everyone who commented, especially those who posted the quote from The Man Himself.
However, per the quotes above, I simply can't see it by looking at the text. The following would genuinely terrify me:FWIW, my choice would be something like {Frodo, Samwise, Gandalf, Aragorn, Gollum, Sauron, Galadriel, Faramir,
Also, JRRT seems to be somewhat inconsistent on the topic himself, as some people quoted his "yes it is" statement, but others say he is also on record adamantly against any allegorical interpretation.
Finally, what are we to make of his idea that an author can "unconsiously" [sic] produce an allegory? Though he adamantly denies that LotR is a WWII allegory, it seems to work better that way than as a Christian allegory, and the time and place of its writing would certainly be conducive to it as well. So can we conclude that he "unconsciously" wrote a WWII allegory and never recognized it?
> Certainly large parts of the Silmarillion [amazon.com] owed a lot to Christian mythology. The fall of Melkor certainly parallels the Satan thing - and yes, the Wizards to have cetain characteristics of angels.
The problem for people who want to really push the idea is that the Tolkien mythos doesn't have any Redeemer, which is the central concept of the Christian mythos.
Conversely, the Numenor meme plays a fairly large role in the Tolkien mythos, but it's derived from the Atlantis myth rather than from Christian myth.
The problem here is that people see a few points of contact between Tolkien and Christianity, know that he was a Christian, and take that as license to hammer everything else into the mold. But it simply doesn't stand up if you look at it objectively.
The interpretation of LoTR as an allegory for WWII seems to work better, though Tolkien himself disavowed it. I'm with those who say that Tolkien was immersed in Western culture (with a deeper than common familiarity with the languages, literature, and folklore of northwestern Europe), and not unexpectedly his writings reveal some of the notions deeply embedded in his culture.
> * it was CS Lewis and Tolkien's publisher who convinced him to write a followup to "The Hobbit";
In the front matter to my edition of LoTR he says that he had actually wanted to follow up The Hobbit with what later became The Silmarillion, but when he enquired about the chances of getting it published he was told "snowball's". So he wrote LoTR as a sort of half-way consolation piece.
> They even suggest that Gandalf was an "Angel" more than a "wizard"
Or they could just read Silmarillion and find out.
But alas, even Silmarillion doesn't tell how many Gandalfs can dance on the head of a pin.
One of the most tolkienesque things I've read in Norse literature is "The Lay of Volund" in the Poetic Edda. The first part is a bit vague, and the rest is rather grim, but it's short and well worth reading if you're in to this kind of thing.
And of course, it might lead you on into some other great literature.